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The prefix mega means million (1,000,000) and the prefix giga means billion (1,000,000,000). So a gigawatt hour is a thousand megawatt hours.

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A gigawatt-hour is a unit of energy equal to one billion watt-hours, while a megawatt is a unit of power equal to one million watts. The main difference is that gigawatt-hour measures energy capacity over time, whereas megawatts measure power output at a specific moment.

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